African Agriculture and Food Systems
KILIMOKWANZA SPECIAL SERIES: ON AGCOT • WHAT TRANSFORMATION ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE Eighteen portraits from Tanzania’s agricultural corridor • Batch 1: The Farmers • kilimokwanza.org The Farmer Who Is Already Thinking About Old Age Raymond Nyagawa farms one acre of potatoes in Mtwango Village and has approximately 100 avocado trees coming into production. When Geoffrey Kirenga […]
A review of the Hand in Hand Initiative’s Financial & Economic Analysis of the Soybean Value Chain in Tanzania Tanzania’s agricultural sector is sitting on an underexploited goldmine — and a new analytical report from the Hand in Hand Initiative in Tanzania is making the case, with numbers, for why now is the time to […]
The International Finance Corporation has released what it describes as a first-of-its-kind framework to guide investments in regenerative farming — a move that could reshape how development finance flows to agribusinesses across emerging markets. The document arrives at a moment of mounting urgency. One third of global soils are already degraded, agriculture is responsible for […]
IN MEMORIAM — AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE The Scientist Who Fed Two Million Farmers The life, research, and enduring legacy of Dr. Dadili Japhet Majune, Head of Cashew Breeding at TARI Naliendele — Tanzania’s quiet architect of a better harvest, and a vision ahead of its time Kilimokwanza Team, Nakuru, Saturday, April 5, 2026 There are people […]
From the cool slopes of Iringa, a quiet revolution in goat milk production is taking shape, and smallholder farmers are at the centre of it. MAZOMBE, KILOLO DISTRICT, IRINGA: At first glance, a herd of goats grazing on the hillside above Ilula Village looks unremarkable. But look closer, at the animals’ build, their temperament, their […]
*FYDP IV signals a bold new era for agro-industrial transformation, and points directly to where the next phase of corridor development needs to happen* Tanzania has released one of its most ambitious national development blueprints yet. The Fourth Five-Year Development Plan, FYDP IV, covering the period 2026/27 to 2030/31, sets a clear and energising direction […]
Feature Story | Brand Heritage Juma Msafiri: Tanzania Brand History Is One of the Most Underreported Subjects in This Country The corporate decisions. The creative risks. The ownership structures behind the brands we grew up loving — most of it was never passed down to us. We inherited the products. Not the story behind them. […]
A World Bank initiative targets the overlooked engine of agricultural transformation — the small agro-processor There is a paradox at the heart of African agriculture that this brochure opens with, and it is a good one: Why does Tanzania export raw cashew nuts and import processed cashew nuts? It is the kind of question that […]
| March 2026 Source data: Tanzania Dairy Board — Viwanda TDB 2025 (tdb.go.tz) Read the recent media coverage of Tanzania’s dairy industry and you could be forgiven for pouring your morning maziwa down the drain in despair. “Tanzania’s dairy sector lacks nine billion litres of milk to meet self-sufficiency,” declared one headline. “Only 2.7 percent […]
KILIMO KINABENKIKA: How Tanzania’s Agricultural Development Bank Rewrote the Rules of Rural Finance | Kilimo Kwanza Kilimo Kwanza Agriculture · Development · Transformation Special Report — A Decade of Agricultural Finance — 2025 KILIMO KINABENKIKA: How Tanzania’s Agricultural Development Bank Rewrote the Rules of Rural Finance From a modest TZS 61.61 billion balance sheet in 2015 to […]